Flashbacks Serve to Heal
By ngutierrez82
- Jul, 03, 2019
When I started my own EMDR work, I was told to expect flashbacks. That since I have started re-processing memories- these memory intrusions would occur. Both my therapist and consultant were right. I have flashbacks in my sleep sometimes. Though …
Poverty Trauma, Institutional Trauma, and more.
- Jul, 01, 2019
I’ve needed to add more to that trauma list of experiences as I’ve receiving even more input from the healing IG community.
Please remember that there are so many other experiences, that fall in these categories, that are similar/different from …
Intergenerational Trauma
- May, 27, 2019
Intergenerational trauma aka Ancestral trauma. In my style of understanding and working through trauma, I believe it’s important to also consider the multigenerational process of passed down pain, patterns, attachment, ways of resolving/avoiding conflict. It’s important to consider how complex …
Intentional Living
- May, 27, 2019
The more I read and the more I learn it seems living intentionally is at the core of this healing journey. Mastering regulating our bodies so we spend less time triggered and activated, more time reflecting on who we are …
What is your relationship to Self?
- May, 05, 2019
When we’re finding ourselves unforgiving of others when they’re unintentionally hurt us, it may be helpful to also look within and see if this is also how we treat and see ourselves. Remember- as within so without, as above so …
Avoid Perfectionism
- Apr, 03, 2019
Do not allow your journey of healing to be shadowed with striving for perfection. Do not! It’s important we not conflate perfection with strength, right, good, great, or progress. That we strive to be great, not to be perfect. That …
Ancestral Trauma
- Feb, 28, 2019
We carry what has happened to our ancestors within our bodies and interact with the world unconsciously carrying them into spaces with us. What is left unresolved in families continues to be passed down generationally. We carry the pain of …
Survivor of sexual trauma
- Mar, 04, 2016
Please be advised this post has a *Trigger Warning.*
“Until it happens to you, you don’t know how it feels..Till your world burns and crashes
Till you’re at the end, the end of your rope
Till you’re standing in my …
Being a new mother
- Feb, 18, 2016
Being a new mother and maintaining a healthy work-life balance can be challenging at times. Let us not forget, there is also time to allocate for studies (if you’re taking any sort of classes for training/school), and spending quality time …
Trauma and Psychoanalysis
- Jan, 27, 2016
As I near the completion of my two year psychoanalytic trauma studies program, I reflect on the understanding I have gained of how important dissociation plays a role in trauma and the human psyche. Dissociation can be understood as the …